House Names For OneSchool Global

From
January 2017 OneSchool Australia will adopt new house names and emblems for the
purposes of sporting and scholastic events. These new names and emblems will
represent the spirit of the school’s global house teams. The decision to have
names was taken to give consistency throughout the OneSchool Global community. Until
now, each school had its own system and set of colours and in some cases, names,
which lacked clarity or purpose.

The
OneSchool Global community has worked hard over the past few months to make
sure that both students and teachers had input into the new names. Three RPs
from around the world, including Australia’s own Woodthorpe RP Paul Maher, coordinated
the process with a series of Global Telecommunications Meetings (GTMs) between
the RPs and students.

“There was one RP each from New Zealand, North America and
Australia, but it was the students who did all the grunt work,” said Paul. “They
set up a Smartsheet voting system for names, logos and slogans. The majority
vote was presented to the Global RP Team who then agreed and presented to the
Global Board for approval."

North America and the United Kingdom have rolled out the names, with
North America also trialling the new house points system.